The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-01-27


charters by corporations.
BY Lane-ro request the sale and lease
of public lands
BY Stinson To amend the law relative
to prosecution of misdemesnors in JUS
ices courts.
By Harrison-To amend article 610,
chapter 3, title 20, of the revised civil
statutes so as to make stockholders liable
for debts of corporations.
+. BY Harrison To fix the reyenua in
civil suits instituted in behalf OF the
state.
House joint resolution Appointing a
committee to visit the penitentiaries was
taken up aad amended so as to include
the convict camp in Robertson county,
and, as amended, it passed.
The bill 10 create the County of Mills
passed,
The bill TO define and fix the liability
of joint aoligors and their estates passed.
The bill to amend the law concerning
the administration of oaths, and author
izing justices of the peace to administer
them, passed.
The bill to restore the civil and crimi-
nal juri dicsion of the county court of
Live Oak county was engrossed with an
Karns and Throckmorton.
The bill 10 amend the law so as TO better
regulate escheats was taken up with ad-
verse report, aud tho report adopted.
The bill to amend the law relative to trial
in capital cases was taken up, The object
of the bill is to prevent continuance of
the case where the defendant absents him
self until the day set for trial
The hill was engrossed,
The bill to punish the conversion of
property by hirers. borrowers and other
bailes went over until next Monday.
The bill to amend the law relative to
stay of proceedings iu justices courts
was laid before the senate and crossed.
The bill TO amoud thu law 80 is TO re-
duce the daily credit of county convicts
hired out, from fifty cents TO twenty-five
cents, wa. laid before the senate and en-
crossed.
Senator Calhoun moved TO postpone
the droutf relief bill until to-day after
morning sail. Adopted.
The oill to provide for the separation
) of partition fences was taken up with an
amendment by the committee, pro-
viding a penalty of dne of $40 to $50
for a violation of the act.
The amendment was adopted and the
bill ergrossed.
Senator Terrell offered resolution that
the SENATE proceed to the election of a
United States senator. Adopted.
The president declared nominations in
order, but the senator's seemed 10th TO
make them, each waiting for some one to
break the ice. Several minutes elapsed
when Senator Houston took the floor, and
amid progused silence nominated Hon
Sam Bell Maxey, as follows;
Mr. President aud Senators For the nth time
since the chains of federal despotisn fell from
her peerless form Texas has come to claim hel
loltest right, to name her choice for the national
For The third time Texas has risen to judge the
worth of the gteat man whose name have the
honor TO place before you. 10,
Texas demands man whose intellect Is com
mensurate with the vast truet imposed upon him
aud whose name la stranger to reproach
10 fplf this high mission the man we sent
should unite every quality DL worth and blend al
the assentinls G. merit-proyen by trial ! will
J nspe 80 q Iaap, great ia mind, pnre ia heart,
,s.ss., .tsi,sb hgs been trtgd Saers % spears
him I mean Sam Bell Maxey Chrstened bytat
fires of two wars, and true t. every trust He fret
y0uth OF u, sought tue battles OF his country
: ard 1t GOutreTRs, CherubusCO and Chepultepec
beneath tie eye of Winfield scott, aud beside Lee
and Juclisru, he accounted spOtless aud brave
I anu was breveted on the battlefield. The Mexican
war over entering the legal profession he removed
TO Texas, and when the clarion warned her 10 mar
her warriors he cast aside all civic hOnOrs and
Prov his devotion to lexss IN the front of battle
"a test the brGyeialone may bear Those of his
regiment, his brigade or his division who have
seen him stand amid the falling forms of her slaiI
sons, will not here deny his love of Texas or his
title to her glOres nor say that, worthy 10 leaC
her soidiefs in battle, he should not speal
her voice in the conucils of the nation
= Whilst tho black pail OF reeonssructon carkene'
DER the Iaudahd the shadow OF deep grief hlled th
u hearts Of her sons hi- man did not despair, but
l. ike a philosopher, held out the hopes Ot bette
4 days. The night passed, the storm was no more
- and whom tile hlne sky smiled through the rem
veil of The tempest Texas sent this man to tn
federal senate aud there his voice rang the revel
OF our redemption. In that day the prOsrat
Sc south, and Texas especially, were the marks o
- inyidiUus legislation and ceaseless calumny. Th
, great enemies of the south were entrenched in tn
capital, snd the while sam Bell Maxey, almost un
aided aud aloneA- for the south had few voice
T. there then-rsi6g TO the full height of senaoo
of r. xas, and speaking for her and southern sisters
> heat back the Xerxes hOsts OF flushed Oppressio
aud sectional hate He was among the earlies
y 70 raiAe his protests against all forms Of govern
mental eKlravagance
When he entered the federal senate there wa
gathered there tpe brightest constellation OF e
Mus and talent within the republican party, and
although almost the only senator nom diser
thralled state, in hopeless majority and be
lea4uered by the myrmydons OF hate, the man o
whom | speak did not quail He had fought for hi
country fights on the crssts of Chepultepec an
h with the same courage he batted for thel
n in the arena Of the national seI
knew stain, and now free sout1 and
}, united nation sw sr his trusts IN twelve lonj
years his RECORD Is HAWKES.. and not a duty unpe
formed Seer did knghtiest crtisader on the fl
r, sands Of TIE Orient bare his bright bate or plac
HE good lance In rest with deeper favor or holi'
a., faith than has this man fought the battles {
And, In weighing him the third time in th
l., balance, why should he be found wanting now an